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Colo. Superintendent Shares Lessons on Crisis Management
Nicholas Gledich
Focus of Strength: Emergency Management
Position: Superintendent
District: Colorado Springs District 11, Colorado
Nicholas Gledich admits he's a pretty big fan of catchphrases.
The superintendent of Colorado Springs District 11, in Colorado, peppers his discussions about the direction of the district with mantras like "think win-win" and "listen first, talk second, manage by facts."
The phrases, which he refers to as "guiding principles," help building leaders and administrators understand his philosophy and make his approach to decisions more transparent, he said.
One of those phrases—"whatever it takes"—took on new meaning in June 2012, when the Waldo Canyon wildfire raged about four miles outside the city, threatening homes and schools in the region. Mr. Gledich led the district's leaders in a quick and comprehensive response, assembled in a few days. And when a fire threatened a neighboring school system a year later, he mobilized district officials to share their battle-tested strategies with their colleagues there.
Mr. Gledich, 60, worked in the Orange County, Fla., school district from 1977 to 2009 before taking his first superintendent job in Colorado Springs, a 28,000-student district with a view of the Rocky Mountains where 57 percent of students qualify for free and reduced-price lunches.
He worked as an elementary teacher, a principal, a senior director responsible for more than 30 schools, an assistant superintendent for instructional programs, and a chief operations officer before leaving the Florida district.
Along the way, he developed a knack for careful planning and considering multiple courses of action, Mr. Gledich said.
"As a classroom teacher, you are constantly developing your lesson plans and you're developing your tools that you have to have in place to monitor the success of your lesson plans," he said. "That's not too different from what you do as a principal or as a project manager, for that matter."
When the Waldo Canyon fire first threatened to leap over its containment line and into the district's boundaries, Mr. Gledich assembled administrators and building leaders, who worked quickly to save student records, attend to the needs of families, and find space for 1,500 firefighters and forest workers to set up shop in school buildings and parking lots.
"He said, 'Whatever you need, whatever you want, we're there to help,' " said Glenn E. Gustafson, the district's chief financial officer. "We said, this is big. It's really going to be bad if it ever comes over that hill. We've got to do the right thing by the community."
As the fire neared the district, dark clouds of smoke hung over the city, building fear in residents and threatening to frighten those who confronted the disaster.
And as Mr. Gledich worked to confront challenges in logistics, personnel, and facilities, he faced the threat of losing his own home.
When emergency workers evacuated the Mountain Shadows neighborhood, where the superintendent and many district families lived, Mr. Gledich and his wife took refuge in a hotel. The hotel was later evacuated, too, as the fire spread. Eventually, the couple camped out at Mr. Gustafson's home. They later learned that the fire had burned the houses on each side of them, but theirs was still standing.
But Mr. Gledich was more focused on the schools located in the fire's potential impact zone than on his own home, said school board President LuAnn Long, who was in touch with Mr. Gledich during the crisis.
The superintendent said he grew concerned by the possibility of the fire's impact early on, even when it wasn't clear whether the flames would reach the district.
"You could see the smoke in the evenings, sometimes you could even see the fire," Mr. Gledich said.
"I just asked the question in a cabinet meeting, 'What could go wrong?' and the answer was that the fire could go over the canyon and come into the city."
From Rescue to Recovery
Leaders quickly formed a plan.
Aside from life, the worst loss to the district would be student records, the cabinet determined before quickly securing them. The team also closed buildings and began converting a middle school to a "base camp" for firefighters, who slept in classrooms and staged equipment in the parking lot.
Even though it was summer and classes weren't in session, the district arranged for families in the evacuated area to meet with counselors at the schools and helped coordinate the distribution of supplies, like toiletries.
The district did not lose any school buildings in the fire. Mr. Gledich still remembers his relief when he entered a brick building in the middle of the fire zone and smelled nothing but air freshener.
But 100 students and about 15 staff members lost their homes.
To ease their loss, the district assembled counseling teams and support groups for families that met in school buildings. Staff members worked to meet the needs of families who lost their belongings and homes, even reprinting damaged and destroyed photos from old yearbooks.
After the school year started, the district used money raised through a relief concert, which was hosted by area organizations, to transport students who had relocated to new attendance zones so they could continue to attend classes in their original schools.
"I realize that we are educators, and our number-one goal is educating students so that we can experience the handshake after 13 years of school," Mr. Gledich said. "But another goal is making sure we take care of the social and emotional needs of our students."
Wisdom Shared
As employees of the district implement his "guiding principles," Mr. Gledich collects examples and posts them online as a way of celebrating people who "create awesome." One of his favorite examples of the principles in action was teachers who rallied to buy new supplies for their peers whose classroom materials, stored in their garages, went up in smoke.
"What an awesome example," he said.
A year after the Waldo Canyon fire, a fresh blaze, the Black Forest fire, burned in the hills near the district.
Even before it was clear that Colorado Springs' schools wouldn't be threatened by that fire, Mr. Gledich directed his administrative team to call their counterparts in the nearby Academy school district to offer advice and support.
Mr. Gledich and other Colorado Springs leaders helped Academy's administration solve problems and advised them how to focus their resources to best assist students and their families, said Nanette Anderson, a spokeswoman for the Academy district.
"At every turn where we wondered how to handle something, our finance people, our risk-management people felt that they could call District 11 and ask how they handled things," she said.
Colorado Springs educators said the superintendent's careful approach to the fire plan was in keeping with his response to every challenge the district has faced, including enrollment declines.
"He doesn't leave anything to chance," board President Long said. "He wants to make sure that he's very precise in the things that he does. But he also takes people into consideration in all things."
Business Plans
As a district leader, Mr. Gledich anchors all long-term goals in a business plan, and he works with his administrative team to critically consider approaches to problems as they emerge. He considers both risks and opportunities in every decision, making his thought processes visible and understandable to parents and staff, and motivating others to become involved in solutions, colleagues say.
"Any situation he looks at, he also looks at the opportunity that exists and how to take advantage of it," said Jason Ter Horst, who oversees a cluster of schools in the district.
Mr. Gledich came into a district that was losing enrollment as families took advantage of Colorado's broad school choice laws to transfer to other districts or move to charter and private schools. District leaders knew they needed to shut down some schools, a process that is never popular, especially in the neighborhoods most directly affected by the closures.
While the closure decisions were still met with criticism by some, Mr. Gledich "thought win-win" by considering unexpected positive outcomes, Mr. Ter Horst said.
In assessing the district's existing programs, Mr. Gledich didn't just look for things to shut down, Mr. Ter Horst said. When district leaders consolidated several vocational and community education programs onto the campus of a former high school, they also added college classes for high school students, which the district lacked.
And when the district opted to close an old elementary school, Mr. Gledich helped negotiate with local beer enthusiasts to open a brewery in the former school building, which has become a fixture of the neighborhood, Mr. Gustafson said.
"That neighborhood has been revitalized," he said. "It's busy all the time."
Vol. 33, Issue 23, Pages s34, s35, s36Published in Print: March 5, 2014, as Nicholas Gledich
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Barberries are drought-tolerant, small- to medium-sized shrubs that have really gained a foothold on the Prairies in the last decade. With their colourful foliage ranging from rich golden to variegated pink and burgundy — depending on the variety — they are wonderful additions to any garden.
Now while barberries are pretty, they are best admired without touching. The first time that I plunged my hand into the centre of a barberry I ended up leaving a small blood donation, thanks to the bush's sharp thorns. Had I used a little common sense and paid attention to the fact that barberries have a 'barb' in their common name, perhaps I wouldn't have had to bandage my bleeding fingers.
The barbs may have evolved to protect the plants from animals, but one could argue that perhaps they are a little payback to humans, considering our somewhat stormy history with barberries.
Its History
Common barberry was introduced from Europe to North America back in the 1700s and quickly became a popular ornamental in yards right across the northern United States and Canada. But near the turn of the 20th century, it was discovered to have a very dark side.
Barberries harboured a devastating disease called wheat rust that, over the years, contributed to the destruction of millions of acres of wheat across the North American continent. Wheat rust was incapable of infecting wheat plants without first reproducing on barberry leaves and then being dispersed on air currents to wheat plants.
Knowing this critical linkage between barberry plants and wheat rust, the American government initiated a massive barberry eradication program in the early 1900s. By 1917, Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta followed suit and put barberries on the prohibited-weed list in an attempt to save our own wheat crops.
In the end, the strategy worked, and thanks to an eradication program that spanned several decades — along with a concerted effort to breed wheat rust-resistant varieties — this devastating disease was under control.
Today, the barberry eradication program of the early 1900s might seem at odds with the fact the we can purchase and grow ornamental barberries in our yards.
But the reason that we can enjoy garden barberries today is because the varieties that we plant in our yards (Berberis thunbergii) are incapable of harbouring wheat rust, unlike the common barberry (Berberis vulgaris) that caused so much furor a century ago.
Best Features
Thorns aren't the barberry's best feature — unless grazing critters are a concern. Rather, it's the assortment of varieties with their strikingly colourful and variegated foliage that is the primary reason for planting these ornamentals.
Among my two favourite varieties is Rose Glow, which develops rich, burgundy foliage at the base of the plant, and transforms to pink with white leaves at the top. My other favourite is golden-yellow Sunsation, which looks fabulous mixed with Rose Glow or any other small red shrubs or flowers.
And don't forget that barberries are also great as small deciduous hedges or for edging large beds.
Degree of Difficulty: easy
Barberries, in general, are very winter hardy, and enjoy full sun. They can tolerate various sunlight exposures although their foliage tends to be a little sparse in spots that receive too little light. Avoid wet, soggy soils or boggy areas, and always plant barberries into soils that are well drained.
Light applications of fertilizer in the spring and early summer are plenty to keep to barriers full and lush.
How Perfect Is It?
Barberries are great, tough, shrubs but are best embraced visually rather than physically. And if you really do need to prune, wear tough, leather gloves.
Back in the 1980s, many nursery stock growers lamented the fact that ornamental barberries couldn't be sold in Canada due to their linkage with the sordid history of the common barberry. Thankfully, the garden varieties have been exonerated as wheat rust hosts and we now have some great barberries to select for the landscape.
Now, if the plant breeders could just find a way to make the barbs a little less pointy, I would be eternally grateful.
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The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has reported a third Colorado death linked to listeria in cantaloupes, bringing the nationwide death toll in the outbreak to as many as 17 people.
The CDC said Friday that 84 people in 19 states have become ill after eating Colorado cantaloupes. That number includes 15 deaths, the CDC said. Health departments in Wyoming and Kansas have said they are investigating additional deaths that may be connected to the outbreak.
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Levels of VLDL (very low density lipoprotein-a form of "bad" cholesterol) were about 44 percent lower in the blueberry-fed hamsters.
Laboratory hamsters that were fed rations spiked with blueberry peels and other blueberry-juice-processing leftovers had better cholesterol health than hamsters whose rations weren't enhanced with blueberries. That's according to a study led by U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) chemist Wallace H. Yokoyama.
Yokoyama pointed out that further research is needed to confirm whether the effects observed in hamsters hold true for humans. He works at the Western Regional Research Center operated in Albany Calif., by the Agricultural Research Service (ARS), the principal scientific research agency of USDA.
In the investigation, hamsters were fed high-fat rations. For some animals, those rations were supplemented with one of three different kinds of juice byproducts: blueberry skins- that is, peels leftover when berries are pressed to make juice; fiber extracted from the peels; or natural compounds known as polyphenols, also extracted from the peels.
Blueberry polyphenols give the fruit its purple, blue, and red coloration.
In an article published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry in 2010, Yokoyama and his coinvestigators reported that all the hamsters that were fed blueberry-enhanced rations had from 22 to 27 percent lower total plasma cholesterol than hamsters fed rations that didn't contain blueberry juice byproducts.
Levels of VLDL (very low density lipoprotein-a form of "bad" cholesterol) were about 44 percent lower in the blueberry-fed hamsters.
Yokoyama and his coinvestigators used a procedure known as real-time reverse transcription polymerase chain reaction, or RT-PCR, to learn about the genes responsible for these effects. This approach allowed the scientists to pinpoint differences in the level of activity of certain liver genes.
In hamsters-and in humans-the liver both makes cholesterol and helps get rid of excessive levels of it. Results suggest that activity of some liver genes that either produce or use cholesterol resulted in the lower blood cholesterol levels.
The study is apparently the first published account of cholesterol-lowering effects in laboratory hamsters fed blueberry peels or fiber or polyphenols extracted from those peels.
Of course, some pieces of the cholesterol puzzle are not yet in place. For example, the researchers don't know which berry compound or compounds activated the liver genes, or which parts of the berry have the highest levels of these compounds.


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On PHPMaster.com there's a new article that suggests that suppressing notices thrown from your code is a bad practice to get into, both through error reporting and the use of the suppression operator, "@".
The PHP notice suppression operator is somewhat of a controversial topic in many circles. Some overuse it, some don't use it at all, and some don't even know it exists. Apologies in advance for the horrible code you're about to witness in this article, but it serves a purpose to illustrate the usefulness (or lack thereof) of the suppression operator.
He talks about some of the common notices and how the suppression operator prevents the "Notice" message that could come out of it. They suggest, however, that there's never a good time to use the operator, especially during development. Obviously, there are a few cases (they point out one with mail) where it could be useful. There's also some sample code for a custom error handler you can use to capture the issues that might come up.


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Well I've just got back from holiday in Spain (Catalonia. not Madrid - sorry Liebst !) and there's been no posts for almost a fortnight. Is the war over? Why wasn't I told?
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I vaguely remember the Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle series from my childhood. I took a lot of it in stride at the time, but upon reading a comment a while back on a post in The Toast's series "Children's Stories Made Horrific," I realized that these books were pretty messed up–letting your child get so dirty that you can plant radishes on their skin is disturbing, but I remember finding them fun.
So I thought that it was an interesting series to choose to bring back. Indeed, some of it reads as a bit odd now–Ann makes a note of saying that the town, now called Little Spring Valley, is unique because children are still allowed to run around by themselves. It's a little strange in this day and age to read about children having group sleepovers at a childless stranger's house. Minus the magic, it reminds me a lot of the Baby-Sitters Club–the parents in this town are all entirely clueless, and instead of trying to raise their own children, they call up someone else, who has no children, and leave the difficult parts of parenting to a stranger.
There is even a scene where Missy Piggle-Wiggle–the replacement for Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle, her niece, who seems to be in her 20s–conjures up out of thin air what can only be described as a Kid-Kit. So while I had originally thought that this series was maybe an odd fit for Ann, it makes a lot of sense. Stupid parents are Ann's bread and butter.
I hadn't read a Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle book in 20 years, so I checked out a few on Open Library to jog my memory. While Ann's book relies heavily on the magic version of Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle–Missy has a chest of magical cures for bad behavior–the first book relies more on psychology, albeit in an exaggerated way. Basically, Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle uses reverse psychology, a la Stacey at the Delaneys'. If your children don't want to sleep, let them stay up until they're so tired and want to go to bed on time themselves, and so on. In subsequent books, she suddenly has access to magic, and uses "cures" as well. Ann has also combined Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle's two living situations–she lives in the Upside-Down House on the farm, which is also somehow in town, and the Upside-Down House itself is now magical, and kind of a dick.
I would say that my main issue with the book is that the parents seem more helpless than they did in the originals. Whereas the parents would try to discipline their children and call up their friends for advice before turning to Mrs. Piggle-Wiggle in the original books, the parents are now basically checked out and figure Missy can do their parenting for them. There is a recurring family in the book whose three children all require separate cures for their behavioral issues, but it's clear from the moment they're introduced that the only real problem these children have is that their parents pay absolutely zero attention to them. On the other hand, there are two children, Della and Peony LaCarte, who are held up by other parents and even other children as paragons of excellent behavior throughout the book, although we never see them, and I have to wonder if the reason that these are the only children who can behave themselves is because they are the only children in Little Spring Valley with parents who give a shit.
That's my main problem with this book–these parents are just like, well, the Stoneybrook parents who needed 13-year-old girls to raise their kids.
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"Witch's Mark", the new video from the Polish female-fronted traditional heavy metal act CRYSTAL VIPER, will make its online debut on Wednesday, June 6 between 5:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. CET at www.imusic1rocks.com, and afterwards (11:00 p.m. CET) there will be TV premiere on iM1 ("Rocks" show). This will be followed by a YouTube premiere.
"Witch's Mark" comes off CRYSTAL VIPER's new album, "Crimen Excepta", which was released in Europe on April 27 and in the U.S. on April 24 via AFM Records. The concept effort about holy inquisition, black magic and witches, where fiction is mixed with historical facts, was produced by Bart Gabriel (SACRED STEEL, JACK STARR'S BURNING STARR) and recorded with sound engineer Mariusz Pietka (MORTICIAN, LONEWOLF).
"Crimen Excepta" features two special guests: David Bower, vocalist of HELL appears in the title track, while VADER mainman Piotr "Peter" Wiwczarek can be heard in the cover version of the classic VADER song "Tyrani Piekiel", which is available as the bonus track on the first, limited edition of the album.
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CRYSTAL VIPER released a two-song digital single, "Witch's Mark", on March 30 via AFM Records. The single includes the title track (taken from "Crimen Excepta"), coupled with "The Banshee", a newly recorded version of the song originally available on the limited edition MLP "The Last Axeman" (2008).


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This collection is a little unique in that even though it has been added to FamilySearch, the custodian of the record, The National Archives in London, has restricted the use of the images to only include the Family History Centers and the main Family History Library in Salt lake City. To locate the closest Family History Center to where you live, visit the link below;
This collection, which contains the records of W.O. 363 and W.O. 364 contains over 43.5 million images. However, its very important to remember that many of the soldiers had multiple records so the number of people covered is far smaller. The collection is not name search able however it is alphabetical by surname.
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YOU ALWAYS HOPE it's clear in New York City on May 28th and July 12th because Manhattan floods with sunlight precisely down the centerline of every street. The skyscrapers that line the gridded streets of NYC's tallest boroughs normally block the setting sun. It's important to remember not to look directly at the sun when enjoying these sunsets.
The effect makes Manhattan a type of modern Stonehenge, although only aligned to about 30 degrees east of north. Were Manhattan's road grid perfectly aligned to east and west, the spectacular sunsets would occur on the Vernal and Autumnal Equinox, March 21 and September 21, the only two days that the Sun rises and sets due east and west.
Astronomy Picture of the Day -- "Manhattan sunset" picture by Neil de Grasse Tyson
Natural History Magazine -- "Sunset on 34th Street Along the Manhattan Grid"


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Hi all, especially those Drifters in the UK,
DuncanB has alerted me to the AdventureX convention which is taking place in London on the 15th & 16th of December. See this link for details:
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I will certainly be there, it would be great if other drifters were there, we could have our own mini-convention!


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BLACKSBURG – Seven prep All-Americans highlight a football recruiting class composed of 28 student-athletes, as announced by Virginia Tech on Wednesday. The class of 28 is the largest since signing 31 in 2008 and the seven All-Americans are the most since inking seven A-As in 2007.
"I am tremendously excited about this recruiting class," head coach Frank Beamer said. "I think every year you have a good group, but I think this one is special. It'll help us continue to move toward our stated goals. I'm particularly happy with the caliber of player, both from an athletic standpoint and from a character standpoint, that we recruited from Virginia. Plus, we were able to go outside of the state and recruit some high quality kids. We're happy with our tailback position. We thought that was a real need this year. Another thing I feel great about is the quality of walk-ons we were able to attract. We have several kids who had scholarship offers to other places who have decided to come to Virginia Tech. I can't name these players, but going over our history with the John Engelbergers, Cody Grimms and Jarrett Fergusons, I think this is a very positive sign for Virginia Tech."
Tech announced 28 players total Wednesday, including 26 who signed NLIs. Seventeen of those 28 players are from Virginia and all of them are ranked among the top 36 in the state according to The Roanoke Times. Highlighting this year's in-state group are four talented players – Dan River High and Parade All-America running back/outside linebacker Trey Edmunds (No. 8 by The Roanoke Times), Clover Hill High receiver Joel Caleb (No. 2 The Roanoke Times), Centreville High defensive end Ken Ekanem (No. 4 The Roanoke Times) and Oscar Smith High running back J.C. Coleman (No. 6 by The Roanoke Times) – who all earned SuperPrep All-America honors, along with Pennsylvania running back Drew Harris. Caleb, Ekanem, Coleman, Edmunds and Harris all made the PrepStar All-America squad, along with L.C. Bird High linebacker Deon Clarke and Lithonia, Ga., defensive end Jarontay Jones.
Caleb is ranked as the No. 53 overall player in the country and the No. 5 "athlete" in the country by PrepStar and played six different positions as a senior, while Ekanem is ranked as the No. 17 outside linebacker in the country by ESPN Recruiting Nation. Coleman is ranked as the No. 3 all-purpose back in the country and the No. 5 prospect in Virginia by Rivals after rushing for 1,488 yards and 20 touchdowns as a senior despite missing three games with an ankle injury. Edmunds is listed as the No. 16 outside linebacker and the No. 9 prospect in Virginia by Rivals. He rushed for 2,596 yards and 33 touchdowns on 283 carries and recorded 143 tackles, including two sacks as a senior.
Four of the state's top nine players according to ESPN Recruiting Nation are now Hokies, including Caleb, who is the site's top player in the Commonwealth. Ekanem (No. 6), South County High linebacker Devin Vandyke (No. 7) and Coleman (No. 9) are all in the top 10, as well.
Eleven players from seven different states also joined the Hokies. A pair of Downingtown East High products – Harris and offensive lineman Jack Willenbrock – will make the trek from Pennsylvania. Harris is listed as the No. 20 running back in the country and the No. 11 prospect in Pennsylvania by Rivals, while Willenbrock is ranked as the No. 59 offensive guard in the country and the No. 32 player in the state by ESPN Recruiting Nation.
Cornerback Donaldven Manning hails from Miami, Fla., and played at Miami Central High. He is listed as the No. 23 cornerback in the country and the No. 27 player in Florida by Rivals. With Manning joining the program, it marks the 22nd time in the past 25 years (1988-2012) that Tech has brought in at least one player from Florida.
Virginia Tech welcomes three players from the Peach State in Lithonia, Ga., wide receiver Joshua Stanford, Fairburn, Ga., defensive back Davion Tookes and Jones. Jones is listed as the No. 23 weakside defensive end in the country by Rivals while Tookes is ranked as the No. 25 cornerback in the country by the same outlet. Stanford is rated as the No. 52 wide receiver in the country by ESPN Recruiting Nation.
Also joining the program from out of the state are North Carolina products Chris Mangus and Dahman McKinnon, Tennessee native Woody Baron, South Carolina receiver Mark Irick and Maryland resident Donovan Riley. Mangus hails from Raleigh and is ranked the No. 25 wingback in the country by Tom Lemming on MaxPreps while McKinnon is a linebacker from Hope Mills who is listed as the No. 38 safety in the country by Scout. Baron is a defensive end from Nashville who is listed as the No. 19 player in his state by Rivals. Irick is a wide receiver from St. Matthews who is ranked as the No. 23 player in the state of South Carolina by SuperPrep, while Riley is a defensive back from Reistertown who is rated as the No. 22 prospect in Maryland by Rivals.
Thirteen other players from the state of Virginia are ranked in the top 36 in the state by The Roanoke Times. They are: Benedictine High defensive lineman Nigel Williams (No. 11), Vandyke (No. 13), Christiansburg High quarterback Brenden Motley (No. 16), Clarke (No. 14), Thomas Dale High defensive back Desmond Frye (No. 18), Northside High tight end Dakota Jackson (No. 22), Lafayette High wide receiver Thomas Smith (No. 24), Woodrow Wilson High receiver Der'Woun Greene (No. 25), Cox High defensive lineman Alston Smith (No. 26), Glenvar defensive end Seth Dooley (No. 28), Riverbend High offensive lineman Adam Taraschke (No. 35) and Blessed Sacrament Huguenot offensive lineman Augie Conte (No. 36). Highland Spring High running back Jerome Wright was named the publication's "Sleeper of the Year".
The Hokies continued their recent success in signing players whose fathers played in the NFL. Alston Smith is the son of NFL Hall of Famer and former Hokie defensive lineman Bruce Smith while Edmunds is the son of NFL Pro Bowl tight end Ferrell Edmunds.
Of the 28 players in the class, 13 are projected to play on the defensive side of the ball (six on the line, three linebackers, four defensive backs). Of the 14 players slated for offense, 10 are coming in as skill players (quarterback/running back/receiver), while four are coming in as offensive linemen or as tight ends. One player (Edmunds) is listed as either a running back or linebacker.
Coleman and Manning both graduated high school early and enrolled at Tech in January, and thus did not sign an NLI on Wednesday. The two are already participating in offseason workouts. Dewayne Alford, Jr., who signed with tech in 2011 and deferred his enrollment, also enrolled in January. Twenty-six players signed with Virginia Tech on Signing Day.


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Perry S. Bechky has 25 years of experience as an international lawyer. Mr. Bechky has represented clients from more than forty countries on five continents.
Mr. Bechky began his career at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he worked for the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) (the agency responsible for administering the major U.S. economic sanctions programs), the Customs Service, and the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of Virginia. Before joining Berliner Corcoran & Rowe LLP, Mr. Bechky also practiced for over thirteen years at two global law firms, taught for five years at two universities, and ran his own boutique law firm for three years.
Mr. Bechky has managed significant international projects before federal courts, federal regulators, and international tribunals. His projects have included cross-border litigation and arbitration, internal investigations, international negotiations, management of legal and political risks, national security reviews of corporate deals, expropriation claims under political-risk-insurance policies, regulatory proceedings, and dispute settlement under international trade agreements. His clients have included national governments, international organizations, individuals and small businesses, and leading businesses in agriculture, banking and finance, energy, manufacturing, services, and technology.
Mr. Bechky has handled all aspects of economic sanctions, including civil penalty proceedings, compliance, counseling, expert testimony, internal investigations, interpretative rulings, licensing, and securities disclosure. His experience with sanctions extends beyond OFAC regulations to include such statutes as the Helms-Burton Act, the Iran Sanctions Act, and the Sudan Accountability and Divestment Act, as well as international measures like UN Security Council resolutions and foreign "blocking statutes."
Mr. Bechky has also handled a variety of other regulatory issues affecting international business, including national security reviews of transnational mergers and acquisitions by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) under the Exon-Florio Amendment, the Foreign Investment and National Security Act (FINSA), and the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (FIRRMA), as well as export controls maintained by the Departments of Commerce and State (EAR and ITAR) and trade policy
Mr. Bechky also has extensive experience representing clients in disputes concerning international law, including international investment law, international trade agreements, and sovereign immunity. He lived in Tokyo for six months, working intensively with the Japanese Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) on World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement.
Mr. Bechky drafted the U.S.-Hong Kong Policy Act (22 U.S.C. § 5701), which establishes the legal basis for U.S. relations with Hong Kong in light of its special status as a "special administrative region" of China. He writes and lectures about economic sanctions, human rights, international arbitration, international investment, international law, international litigation, international trade, political risk insurance, and treaties.
Mr. Bechky serves on the Executive Council of the American Society of International Law, and he recently completed a three-year term as the elected cochair of the Society's interest group on resolution of international disputes.
Won challenges against both Indonesian restrictions on trade in automobiles and U.S. antidumping duties on Korean steel under the WTO procedures for resolving intergovernmental trade disputes
Secured dismissal of a federal class action alleging that OPEC violated the U.S. antitrust laws, affirmance by the Eleventh Circuit, and denial of certiorari
Prosecuted claims successfully under political-risk-insurance (PRI) policies for the expropriation of investments in Argentina and India, including the first "lender-side" claim paid by the U.S. Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC), the second largest expropriation claim paid by OPIC, and a multimillion dollar arbitral award
Represented clients on various matters concerning bilateral investment treaties (BITs), international investment agreements, and investor-state arbitration
Sat as an arbitrator in an international arbitration (ad hoc) arising from a joint venture
Submitted written testimony to California state court as an expert on U.S. economic sanctions law and assisted another sanctions expert in submitting written testimony to an international arbitral tribunal
Negotiated a commercial and regulatory solution when the innocent buyer of Iraqi crude oil learned that the oil had been exported from Iraq in violation of the terms of the United Nations Oil for Food program
Developed and executed a strategy that allowed the buyer of a U.S. manufacturer of telecom equipment to address potential export control violations by the target company
Obtained CFIUS approval for more than a dozen cross-border mergers and acquisitions, involving aviation, chemicals, construction, electronics, metals, naval equipment, and telecommunications
Secured a stay under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) of a U.S. lawsuit against a Belgian client in favor of arbitration in Denmark, facilitating a favorable settlement
Wrote amicus briefs to the DC Circuit for the Mexican Government in cases about the constitutionality and implementation of certain provisions of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
Worked pro bono for one month in Arusha, Tanzania at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, assisting the prosecution team with the trial of four accused architects of the Rwandan genocide.
Perry S. Bechky International Dispute Resolution PDF Bio


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Although no more related to placental moles than to any other placental mammal, the southern marsupial mole (Notoryctes typhlops) has a remarkably similar body form as a result of its burrowing lifestyle. The thick and powerful body is neatly adapted for moving around under the sand, with fused neck bones (vertebrae) for greater rigidity, a horny shield on the nose, and oversized flat claws on the third and fourth digits of the short forelimbs for digging. The southern marsupial mole spends much of its time in the dark under the sand and many of its features reflect this. The pouch opens to the rear to prevent sand entering during burrowing, the eyes are vestigial, the ear openings are well hidden under the fur and the nostrils are small and slit-like. The fur is silky and creamy-yellow to golden in colour, but can be pinkish brown to golden red as a result of iron-staining from the sand (2) (4) (5).
The distinct tracks of the southern marsupial mole, created by the hind feet and the hard tail swinging from side to side are most often found following rain, but it is not clear whether the mole emerges from under the sand more often after rain or whether the tracks are simply more obvious. Burrowing just beneath the surface, the mole travels fairly short distances pushing with the horny nose, scooping with the forefeet and throwing up the sand with the hind feet. The tunnels collapse behind the mole as it travels and it surfaces fairly frequently, propelling itself with its hind feet across the sand (2) (4) (5).
Reported separately as both diurnal and nocturnal, the southern marsupial mole appears to be quite active, favouring small reptiles and insects as prey (2) (4) (5).
Little is known about the reproductive habits of the southern marsupial mole, but it is thought to breed around November (4), producing one or two young, which move into the backwardly facing pouch after birth to suckle (2). Deep, permanent burrows are built for the young after they leave the pouch (2).
The southern marsupial mole is found in the central deserts of southern Northern Territory, northern and east-central Western Australia and western South Australia (1) (2).
This species inhabits sand dunes and sandy soils along rivers (1).
In the early 1900s, several thousand southern marsupial mole pelts were traded by Aboriginal people to Europeans. Little is known of the threats to the southern marsupial mole but the most obvious threat is predation by feral cats, foxes and dingoes. It is also thought that altered fire and grazing regimes have changed the abundance of prey (3).
Scientists are working with Aboriginal people to find and study marsupial moles in the Northern Territory and South Australia (3) as conservation work to prevent further decline of this species depends on a greater understanding of the ecology and threats to the marsupial mole.
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Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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Oki Sogumi was born in Seoul, South Korea as military dictatorship ended. She writes poetry and fiction, and her forthcoming speculative novella is about giant insects, migration, time travel, oceanic feelings, wellness, and both the limits and possibilities of relations like friendship. She currently resides in Philadelphia.
Jeanine Webb (she/they) is a writer, collective organizer, cancer survivor and is a Dissertation Fellow in Literature at UC San Diego. Her research focuses include poetry and politics, and race and gender in speculative fiction . Her poetry has been published in many journals, including Lana Turner, The Capilano Review, The West Wind Review, ARMED CELL, The Ghazal Page, The Antioch Review, Star*Line, ZYZZYVA, Jupiter 88 and in the collaborative poetry pamphlet Poetry is Not Enough, with two poems forthcoming in Lumen. Her essays have been published on ON Contemporary Practice's .pdf Archive Series, The Poetic Labor Project, the Post-Crisis Poetics series and on Monstering Magazine, with another forthcoming for Tripwire. A feature on her poetry, edited by Perwana Nazif, is forthcoming in Cold Cut Magazine. Some current or forthcoming book projects which feature her work include the San Diego Writers' Anthology A Year In Ink Vol.3, the Now That's What I Call Poetry Anthology, The Alette in Oakland Reader and Occupy Poetics. When she can afford to, she publishes the bilingual, cartonera-style handmade journal, TACOCAT. Last year she presented on contemporary graphic novels at Comic-Con and this summer she will be a fellow-in-residence at Emory's Rose Library and teaching a course on Women Writing the Ancient and Classical World.
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Rich, strange and gorgeous, F.W. Murnau's "Sunrise" (1927) shows what an artist of the late silent era could accomplish cinematically, backed by an open checkbook and fueled by the highest aspirations even in the simplest of morality tales.
The project came about when producer William Fox offered the German director Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe) the chance to make a movie in America. After "Tartuffe" and "Faust" for Ufa studios in Berlin, Murnau crossed the Atlantic. The director's Fox years were sadly few, and — tragically — no copies remain of one Murnau title from this period, the circus melodrama "4 Devils."
Nonetheless we have "Sunrise," among other Murnau works, and its influence on everyone from John Ford to fellow Fox protege Frank Borzage was enormous. For his tragedy with a happy ending, Murnau and his team built, from scratch, a village at Lake Arrowhead, Calif., and on the Fox Hills backlot, a dazzling city set, both real and tantalizingly artificial, like Jacques Tati's vision of Paris in "Play Time." The story is elementally simple. Lumpenprole George O'Brien strays from his marriage to angelic Janet Gaynor thanks to his weakness for a vacationing seductress (Margaret Livingston). A murder is planned. Then, improbably, "Sunrise" moves toward the redemptive light, as husband and wife relax and reconnect in the city sequences, full of kinetic visual marvels and startling shifts in tone.
The one-time-only 7:30 p.m. Friday screening of "Sunrise" at Northwestern University's Block Cinema will feature a live musical score written and played by Stockholm-based composer Matti Bye. A random sampling of Bye's work via youtube.com suggests a highly promising matchup of musical sensibility and Murnau's visual magic.
Tickets are a measly $6, and "Sunrise" will be screened at Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston.


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Balance of Maine's oil cleanup raises concern
$2 million for a spill highlighted after Quebec accident
Maine's environmental beauty is irreplaceable, but the recent derailment and oil spill in Quebec has many people thinking about the damage such a disaster could cause here.
"What if that had been the next day and it had been in Maine?" asked Joe Payne of the Oil Spill Advisory Committee.
Payne, an environmental advocate for Casco Bay, said he is concerned that the state's coastal and inland surface oil cleanup fund right now only has $2 million. He said it should be three times that.
"It doesn't take a huge spill to cost millions of dollars to clean up," Payne said. "Now, this fund wouldn't be the only – or even the main – source, maybe, but it could be and so we have to have that money there."
One reason the fund's balance is low is because lawmakers have been raiding it for years to help balance state budgets.
Maine Department of Environmental Protection numbers show the Legislature has taken almost $1 million from the surface oil cleanup fund over the past decade.
DEP spokeswoman Jessie Logan blames a generous welfare system for the budget imbalances.
"The administration very much seeks to have a sustainable welfare program that protects the most vulnerable in this state but without cannibalizing funds in other departments," Logan said.
The lack of money doesn't mean the state isn't prepared to deal with disaster, said Peter Blanchard, the DEP's director of response services.
"We're working to improve our collections, to watch our expenses, and make sure that we are well-prepared," Blanchard said.
The money lawmakers take from dedicated funds are surpluses, legislative leaders said. But some Mainers don't buy that rationale.
"The money's allocated for certain things and that's where it should go," said David Connolly of South Portland.
"It never surprises me what politicians do," said Katherine Ewing of Bath.
In the event of disaster, there would be other money available on the state and federal level, as well as from the person or company responsible for an oil spill, but the initial response by the DEP could make a difference, Payne said.


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